Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 25
Now when Rasalu replied so gallantly, the maiden looked in his face, and seeing how fair he was, and how brave and strong, she straightway fell in love with him, and would gladly have followed him through the world.
Who acts: Rasalu, maiden, she straightway · What happens: reply, look, see, be, fall, follow · To what, where: love, Rasalu, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, maiden, she straightway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 replied | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 replied | advmod |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 gallantly | advmod |
| 6 | gallantly | gallantly | ADV | _ | 4 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seeing | cc |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | advcl |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 fair | advmod |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seeing | ccomp |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fair | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fair | cop |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brave | cc |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 brave | advmod |
| 24 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 strong | cc |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brave | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 straightway | compound |
| 29 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brave | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 love | case |
| 32 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 followed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 followed | cc |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 followed | aux |
| 38 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 40 followed | advmod |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 followed | aux |
| 40 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 fell | parataxis |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 followed | obj |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 world | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 world | det |
| 44 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 followed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Rasalu | now | gallantly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | past | the maiden | in Rasalu's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Rasalu not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Rasalu | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | she straightway | love | with Rasalu | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 6 | follow | would · perfect | Rasalu | the world | gladly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through world=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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